The department has acquired a SiCortex 072 High Performance Computing machine. SiCortex builds machine with approach similar to IBM Blue-Gen, collapsing a roomful of 64-bit computing power down onto a single backplane in a single compact cabinet. For more details, visit http://www.sicortex.com SiCortex 072 comes with 72 CPUs on 12 SMP nodes in a desktop-size cabinet. Each node has 6 CPUs and 4.0 GB RAM and the CPU architecture is MIPS 64bit. You may have to rebuild your application for MIPS64 architecture. The name of the machine is brady.cs.uh.edu, and only ssh access is allowed with accounts of the department HPC systems (marvin, zeola). Currently, one node (the head node) is used for shell interactive activities and building applications, and another 11 nodes (66 CPUs) are available for regular computation jobs. When you login to the system, you are in the head node. The machine was built with SiCortex Linux distribution, derived from Gentoo Linux. GNU Software development utilities (gcc, make, autoconf) and SiCortex MPI libraries are installed. The system use Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) to schedule multiple and parallel jobs on the nodes. We will install other software gradually as we need, so let us know if you have special requirements. See more:
SLURM:
https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/
The SiCortex Programming Guide:
http://www.sicortex.com/products/product_documentation/the_sicortex_programming_guide
The SiCortex System Administration Guide: http://www.sicortex.com/products/product_documentation/the_sicortex_system_adminstration_guide
